Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-01-11
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
TIE TIE Up AT BOSTON
Ends In A Victory For The
Strikers.
SCALPS OFF IN THE TREASURY.
A Scene In The Indiana
Legislature.
THU DEATH OF JOHN ROACH.
A Strange Tale From The
Northwest.
BOSTON ROADS TIED Up.

BOSTON ROADS TIED UP.
Few Cars Running ON the Consoli-
dated-The Road Pretty Well Grip.
pied As The Company Was Taken
| Unawares-POice MAN the Few Cars
That Make the Trip.
BOSTON, Jan. 10.-The striking employees
| of the Consolidated street railroad who went
out this morning as result of the meeting
| which adjourned at $3.50 a. m. had SO far
succeeded in crippling the company at 2 p.m.
that the last car out on the Roxbury line was
stabbed at that hour and no more cars were
run that end of that road On the
| Charlestown side trips were discontinued, the
stables and car houses locked up and most of
| the officers sent home. 1t is believed that
| overtures towards settlement of the trouble
have been made and possibly the tie-up may
be declared off before morning The Metro
politan road seized the occasion to make a
big bid for traffic and put on their lines to-
day everything in the shape of car
which they could get horses to draw.
All their cars were heavily loaded
and 'tstand up' and Chang on" were the
rule. Some enterprising Yankees took adj
vantage of the strike and chartered barges
and open teams to transport freight. The
coaches too did a great business. Public
sympathy with the strikers was early appre-
ciated by the men and at s a. m. their exec
utive committee posted man on every cor
ner of Columbus and Shawmut avenues to
inform those desiring to ride of the situa-
ton. The most exciting scene witnessed in
connection with the strike was the success
full blockade of car No. 169 of the Northern
depot line made by upward of one hundred
strikers between Cornhill and Hanover
streets on its way toward Somerville at 2:15
p. m. Fully fifteen hundred people stood
about the street and sidewalks and the
strikers and their friends cried in unison
s'Scabs!" "Scabsl' s'Scabs!" The noise was
almost deafening and as many as five or six
times the strikers succeeded in preventing
the progress of the car and it took nearly
twenty minutes time for the car to go from
the lower end of Cornhill to Hanover street.
The distance is but one hundred rods. The
sidewalks were 80 densely crowded that they
were impossible and passengers took to the
streets. The strikers followed the car on its
way toward Charlestown hooting and yelling
and the scene was unparalleled. The car
was crowded with passengers, many of whom
were ladies. At 3 O'Clock car No. 76 entered
Haymarket Square on its inward trip. 1t
was hailed with howl of derision by the
crowd. One or two missiles were thrown,
but the prompt arrest of the offenders
quickly stopped that proceeding. At Hano
yer street another crowd had collected. Just
as the Charlestown car reached the crossing
fremont street Metropolitan car came
down the hill. The Consolidated car had
the right of way, but the driver of the
Mokrn afplxy Innly cd in,
the opposite direction and made no attempt
to stop his car. - The inevitable collision
followed. The Charlestewn car was thrown
from the track and the passengers badly
shaken up and thoroughly scared. Instantly
the were surrounded. The driver and
conductor could not keep the crowd from the
platform. A short struggle ensued between
the police and the hoodlums and the wreck
was cleared away almost soon it occur
red. The police lifted the car upon the track
and then the driver dashed his herses into a
run. In that way the car was whirled up
Washington street, not stopping either for
those who were within or for those who
wanted transportation. During the day sew
eral strikers were arrested for throwing snow
balls and yelling ''scabs."
The principal grievance of the strikers, the
one which has caused all the trouble, is,
according to the strikers, the practice re-
Gently adopted by the road of reducing many
of their regular men, who have always been
paid by the day, from per diem
employees to per trip employees. The COM
pany finds it cheaper to employ their men in
this way with the result that large portion
of the conductors and drivers who have been
earning regular wages of So or s1.75 per day
for years suddenly find themselves unable to
earn by the trip system more than 81 per
day. Against this situation the men say
they have been driven to the last resort in
the way of protest. President Powers of the
road said this afternoon: CATER the men
had presented their last communication
sent them word that had not until recent
ly been in position to actually direct all the
details of the management but that now I
propose to give the matters of extra work
and pay nay immediate personal attention,
and further that would guarantee to ar
range everything to their satisfaction. I sup
posed this assurance on my part would be
entirely satisfactory and you can judge of my
surprise at the sudden tie-up of the road"
No cars were run after dark and all was
quiet to- light. It is said that proposition
has been made by the directors of the COM
pany and that the strikers are considering it.
An amicable adjustment of all difficulties
has been reached. The strikers have a COM
plete victory. Holsters will receive
$40 week and tow boys 50.
The trip system will be abolished
and the men will be paid by the day they
desired. The strikers will not be punished
for their action and Hitchcock, the obnoxious
starter, will be discharged Drives and con-
ductors will not be obliged to wash cars here
after. The men will go to work tomorrow.